48 Stoke Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 2SP

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 222 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FD for £5,175 · £2,588 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£5621.8 yrs+8.7 pts · reaches E
Heating controls£350 – £450£2052.0 yrs+3.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£4202.4 yrs+6.5 pts
Low energy lighting£175£257.1 yrs+0.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£3457.5 yrs+5.3 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£9,000 – £14,000£52022.1 yrs+8.0 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£4,787
per year at grade F
£2,711
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £1,556 a year — a 30.1% annual return on £5,175.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £3,318 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 December 2000£250,000

Estimated today: £809,148 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Stoke Road: 111 sales since 1995 · £622,583 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Linslade Lower SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
The Mary Bassett Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Southcott Lower SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary2.8 miProgress 8 +0.11 · average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

4.7
crimes a month
42
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017590, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Stoke Road

How this home sits against its street.

46
graded homes
58.2
average score
D
most common grade
-23.2
this home vs street
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